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Jun tried not to look like he was nervous. Why would he be nervous? He had no reason to be nervous.

He was the only first year starting, but there was no reason to be nervous.

“You’re quiet,” Kusunoki commented beside him.

“I’m thinking.”

“That hasn’t been your game plan, historically.”

“Why are we friends again?”

“Because you’re really gay, and therefore dramatic, and you’re legally required to have someone knock you down a few pegs periodically.”

Jun shrugged because he figured that was fair.

“You’re the only first year starting,” Kusunoki said. “So you have to fight for all of us on the bench and in the stands. So you can’t be nervous.”

“What is this?” Inashiro’s coach had spoken loudly enough that his conversation with Kataoka was carrying over to the team. Everyone stopped their conversations at once to focus on their coaches instead.

“I’m not sure what you mean,” Kataoka replied, arms crossed and sunglasses glinting in the sun.

“You’ve always been unconventional, but a werewolf on your team?” Jun tried not look like he was listening in. “Really? That’s just dangerous.”

“He’s been on the team all year, and we haven’t had any incidents,” Kataoka said. “He’s no more dangerous than any of our players.”

“I’m not going to risk my team just on your word,” Inashiro’s coach snapped. “We’re not playing this game if you play your werewolf.”

“Jun’s not dangerous,” Kusunoki said. “He’d never hurt anyone.”

“We’ve never had a problem with him,” Sakai added. “He’s our teammate, we’re not playing without him.”

It would’ve been a better sentiment from someone who was actually starting, but Jun still felt a few manly tears gather in his eyes from the support of his teammates.

But it seemed the support of Kusunoki and Sakai was all it took for everyone else to speak up, until the other starters started contributing their support for Jun. The manly tears were starting to threaten to fall. Jun tried valiantly to pretend the one that streaked past his nose wasn’t there.

“There you have it,” Kataoka said, gesturing to the team. “My team won’t play without Isashiki, even if I tell them to.”

Inashiro’s coach didn’t look thrilled with this turn of events, but in the end, his desire to defend his school’s pride won out.

“Guys…” Jun started.

“None of that,” Kataoka cut him off. “There’s no crying in coven battles, Isashiki. Thank your teammates by defending the flag for them.”

“Yes sir!”

“All of you have had all the training you need. Go out there and win.”

“Yes sir!”

Jun ran out on the field. They were defending first, and he took up his position near the flag, close enough to see it, but far enough out that he was an effective defender.

He could see the ace and his shield, heads tipped together as they decided last minute strategy things. Jun couldn’t help but think to himself how cool the ace looked. Even though he’d come to love his new position, he couldn’t forget how much he’d loved his old position, or the reason he’d started playing it in the first place.

He hadn’t had the traditional battery relationship with his shield. It was a little hard to have when one member of the battery couldn’t use magic. But they’d been partners nonetheless. They’d just had to get creative with how they did it. Namely, Jun’s old partner had stayed right on top of the flag while Jun had come out farther than most aces would, scaring opposing teams off.

Jun shook himself. He would focus on the position he was actually playing today, so he could support his team in return for them supporting him.

Inashiro was fast, Jun would give them that. Their firepower was about the same, but Seidou was having a hard time catching them. Before Jun could blink twice, someone was already running around the back of the flag to try and capture it.

Without stopping to think, Jun let his fangs and claws flare out, and roared for all he was worth. It was enough to throw the Inashiro player off his rhythm, enough to buy the ace time to hit him with three successive blasts.

Out.

Jun accepted a fist bump from the wingman that had circled around to back Jun up if they needed it. Jun grinned, letting out a wild laugh. Inashiro didn’t want to play with werewolves? Their loss. They weren’t used to him, so they’d just be more scared when he roared.

There was no score that inning, and Seidou went on the offense. Jun relaxed a little, at least until he saw his team running back after getting three strikes. There was still no score from either side, and Jun was determined to keep it scoreless this time as well.

He was pretty sure even his face was starting to morph now, making him look even more like a wolf. He could straddle the line between human and wolf effortlessly, letting both parts of his nature show. He could finally be both at once, as he always was, even if he was hiding one so he wouldn’t scare other people.

Jun roared again. No one was getting past him.

***

“So anyway, we won,” Jun summed up, frantically licking at his ice cream to keep it from melting down his hand.

“I wish I could’ve seen it,” Yuuki said, watching Jun try to save his melting ice cream. Yuuki had already finished his, eating while Jun had run down a play by play of the game, with a few glaring exceptions – namely, all the times he’d growled and flashed his claws and scared the other team off. “My brother and I usually watch it on TV, but I was busy all that day.”

Good, Jun thought to himself. He definitely didn’t want to send Yuuki running from all the wolf stuff. He was actually enjoying having someone around to hang out with. Yuuki was a pretty good friend now, all things considered. Jun wanted to keep that going.

And it probably wouldn’t keep going if Yuuki knew. Not even magic people liked werewolves. Normal humans must have been terrified.

“There’s always next year,” Jun said, instead of what he was really thinking.

“I could’ve come this year if you’d told me when it was,” Yuuki said. “I forgot until the day of, and I didn’t realize until I got home.”

“Is it my job to tell you my schedule?” Jun asked. He was even more thrilled with his decision to not tell Yuuki about the game. Clearly, it had been the right one.

“We message every day, you should’ve mentioned it,” Yuuki said, but he didn’t look too upset. “Like I’ll be messaging you in a few months when the baseball tournament starts.”

“I’m not missing that for anything,” Jun said. “I can go stare at beautiful men without judgement for hours.”

“That’s something you want to do?” Yuuki asked. “Why?”

Jun froze, letting the ice cream drip all over his hand. Did Yuuki not know? Granted, Jun hadn’t even told him, but wasn’t it obvious? He hadn’t told anyone on his team either, and they all seemed to know.

“I’m gay, dude,” Jun said, laughing to try and lighten the mood and going back to trying to clean up his hand with his tongue. “I thought that was obvious.”

“I mean, I wasn’t sure,” Yuuki told him. “You could be bisexual.”

“That’s what I told myself in middle school when I was trying to be normal,” Jun shrugged. “But as it turns out, I have not nor will I ever feel attraction to a woman.”

“That’s fair,” Yuuki said. “Since you apparently don’t tell me anything, is there a boyfriend you’ve been hiding?”

“No, unfortunately, most people make the same assumption you do,” Jun sighed. “You know I couldn’t get the girls in high school to stop confessing to me? Somehow the shoujo manga habit translated as soft and misunderstood boy who treats his girlfriend like a princess instead of I’m just really fucking gay.”

Yuuki actually snickered in response to that.

“Don’t laugh at my pain!” Jun yelled, but he was laughing too. “Seriously, why did everyone insist I was straight? I made multiple announcements that I was gay.”

“It’s the beard,” Yuuki told him.

“There’s no possible way it’s the beard,” Jun argued. “I didn’t even have the beard until third year of high school.”

“It’s definitely the beard,” Yuuki insisted. Jun had learned how to read the tiny twitches of his mouth when he was fucking with people.

“Sure, sure, whatever you say,” Jun said, finishing off his ice cream with a crunch. He took one brief look at his hands, covered in melted chocolate, shrugged, and started licking the sticky dry ice cream off.

Yuuki stood without a word, walking away quickly. Jun watched him go, still licking ice cream off his fingers. Yuuki came back with a stack of napkins.

“Were you raised by animals?” he asked, handing them off to Jun. Just for good measure, Jun gave his fingers one more lick. Yuuki’s eye twitched.

“Maybe I was,” Jun said, wiping his hands down. It was the closest he would come to telling Yuuki the truth for now. “Maybe I’ve been raised in the woods, running with wolves and not wiping blood off with napkins like a civilized person.”

“I’d believe it,” Yuuki said. “We should do this again sometime.”

“What, insult me to my face? Because I had so much fun with that this time around?”

“Get ice cream,” Yuuki said. “I have to get used to watching you eat somehow.”

“Just one of the perks of my friendship,” Jun shrugged. “I can’t believe I ever thought you were serious. Now that I know what to look for, it’s obvious that you’re messing with me constantly.”

“My team hasn’t figured that out yet,” Yuuki said. “Someone asked me for batting advice the other day and I told them they had to establish dominance over the bat first.”

Jun barked with laughter.

“I seriously don’t know how they haven’t figured you out yet,” Jun laughed. “You have this thing you do with your face.”

“That’s specific.”

“Another perk of my friendship.”

“Since you didn’t tell me when your game was, you definitely have to show up to mine,” Yuuki said. “Text me a selfie of you in the stadium, or I’ll just think you’re lying to me to save face.”

“I’ll do you one better,” Jun promised. “I’ll be the most obnoxious cheerleader in the stands. You won’t be able to miss me.”

“You wouldn’t.”

“You don’t know me if you think I wouldn’t,” Jun said. “I’ll have a sign too, of course. How does ‘Yuuki for President’ sound?”

Yuuki was starting to shake with silent laughter.

“Or how about ‘Marry me Yuuki’ instead,” Jun went on. “Isn’t that what girls do when they go to concerts?”

“I’ll never be able to concentrate on the game,” Yuuki deadpanned. “My team will just be asking me when I got a male fan club begging for my hand in marriage.”

“Sounds like a you problem,” Jun said. “But no, I’ll definitely be there. It sounds fun.”

“And you’ll get ice cream with me again?”

“I’m starting to think you have some kind of fetish for watching me eat.”

“I actually just like ice cream.”

Jun laughed again. It felt like summer, his mouth still cool from the ice cream and the air hot and humid around him, laughter on his tongue from spending time with a friend.

Tokyo was great.

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